[1180] All he means is, that the intentions of God are manifested in the nature of man.
[1181] Dryden, State of Innocence, Act v.:
With all the num'rous family of death.
Garth, Dispensary, vi. 138:
And all the faded family of care.—Wakefield.
[1182] Warton remarks that the group of allegorical personages are here suddenly changed to things which are to be "mixed with art."
[1183] MS.:
To blend them well, and harmonise their strife
Makes all etc.
[1184] In plain prose thus: "To grasp present pleasures and to find future pleasures is the whole employ of body and mind." Pope's line is rendered intolerable by its elliptical and inverted language, and the unmeaning expletive "still."
[1185] MS.: